School of Mathematical Science

The School of Mathematic Science, formerly known as Mathematics Department of Shandong Normal University’s branch in Liaocheng, was founded in 1974. It was renamed Mathematics Department of Liaocheng Teachers College in 1981 and changed again the Department of Mathematics and System Science in 1999. In 2003, with the establishment of Liaocheng University, it was renamed the School of Mathematical Science of Liaocheng University. For more than 40 years, with the successive leadership and faculty’s joint efforts and hard work, great changes have taken place in various aspects, such as teaching, scientific research, education level and scale, faculty structure, personnel training, professional and disciplinary construction, etc.

The number of current faculty is 84, including 8 professors and 23 associate professors, 47 teachers are doctors or doctoral candidates. In this school are one double-employed Academician, two distinguished professors and 15 part-time professors. Among the full-time teachers are one national outstanding teacher, three national excellent tutors for Master of Education, one provincial outstanding teacher and one provincial excellent tutor for postgraduates.

The School of Mathematical Science covers three undergraduate majors -- mathematics and applied mathematics, information and computational science, and accountancy. The first two majors are provincial featured majors. Mathematics and applied mathematics are majors fully supported by provincial finance. Accountancy, as an auxiliary major for double majors and double degrees, is a popular major in Liaocheng University. At present, there are more than 2000 full-time undergraduates and about 50 postgraduates in this school.

The school possesses one National video open course, one provincial teaching team, two provincial quality courses, one provincial featured course for adults higher education, and sixteen textbook publications with one provincial excellent textbook. In the past five years, the school undertook 3 provincial teaching reform projects for colleges and universities, gained 5 provincial teaching achievement awards, got the first prize for national micro class competition for one time, and obtained two first prize for young teachers’ teaching skills competition in Shandong Province.

Discipline & Research

The school owns two master degree programs for first-class discipline--mathematics and system science, and one master degree program for second-class discipline--subject teaching (mathematics). System theory is the key discipline of the 11th five-year plan and the 12th five-year plan of Shandong Province. The big data intelligent analysis and optimization control lab is the university key laboratory of the 13th five-year plan in Shandong province.

The discipline construction of this school gradually formed dominant research teams with various orientations including the theory of differential equation and its application, optimization theory and application, matrix theory and application, visual data analysis and application, complex system analysis and control, Uncertainty Theory. In the last five years, the school headed 18 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation and 12 projects of the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong province. More than 300 papers, including 200 ones indexed by SCI and EI, were published in all kinds of important academic journals, and the highest reference rate for one paper has reached more than 500 times. There are six monographs published by Science Press. The school has been granted a number of honors and awards, one paper nominated for the best paper in 《Pattern Recognition》, one for the second prize of provincial science and technology progress, one for the third prize of natural science, and four for the first prize of outstanding scientific research achievements of the universities and colleges in Shandong Province.

Laboratories

The school owns one laboratory for mathematical modeling and numerical calculation and one for accounting simulation equipped with more than 200 microcomputers. The school possesses a platform for intelligent information processing and complex system research based on a big data, which combines a super fusion architecture server, big data analysis server, high performance computing server and desktop robot vision system into an organic whole, costing 550 ten thousand yuan. In collaboration with Oracle (ORCL), the school set up the education center for engineering experiments and scientific research center for data.